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Posted on Apr 24, 2012 By Michael Redenburg
April 24, 2012 In round two of Operation Hang Up, New York law enforcement will be aggressively looking for motorists using handheld devices or cell phones while driving - which, following a law ...
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Posted on Apr 11, 2012 By Michael Redenburg
April 11, 2012 Following a New York Court of Appeals decision last year, which allowed a former inmate who was wrongfully convicted to seek pecuniary compensation, the New York State Attorney General ...
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Posted on Apr 11, 2012 By Michael Redenburg
April 11, 2012 Abd al-Rahin al-Nashiri, who is alleged to have been an al-Qaeda mastermind, is due to face a military tribunal in Guantanamo Bay. According to media reports in The Telegraph , the U.S. ...
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Posted on Apr 9, 2012 By Michael Redenburg
April 9, 2012 In an opinion and memorandum filed on April 3, 2012, one issue considered by the court was, "Can bail pending decision on appeal be granted by a trial court, even though the statute ...
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Posted on Apr 7, 2012 By Michael Redenburg
April 7, 2012 New York State Assemblyman David Weprin lent continued support for the passage of Alice's Law by taking to the steps of City Hall last weekend. The proposed law is in memory of a 71 ...
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Posted on Apr 3, 2012 By Michael Redenburg
April 3, 2012 In what has been named "Operation Cross Check," United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement a/k/a "ICE," announced yesterday that they had arrested and detained ...
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Posted on Apr 2, 2012 By Michael Redenburg
April 2, 2012 Today the United States Supreme Court decided a case heard late last year, in which the petitioner, Albert Florence, alleging Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment violations, argued that ...
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Posted on Apr 1, 2012 By Michael Redenburg
April 1, 2012 As reported by NY1 yesterday, the Manhattan District Attorney's office is widening the scope of crimes that can be charged as Hate Crimes. By categorizing certain crimes as Hate ...
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Posted on Mar 29, 2012 By Michael Redenburg
March 29, 2012 According to news reports, not one and not two; but that's right - THREE law enforcement agencies in upstate New York, used all of their resources together to raid a 76 year old ...
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Posted on Mar 24, 2012 By Michael Redenburg
March 24, 2012 On Thursday, the New York State Court of Appeals held that if the court Orders bail be set to ensure a defendants return to court, state court judges must give defendants at least two ...
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Posted on Mar 21, 2012 By Michael Redenburg
March 21, 2012 This past weekend, an OWS protester who had been arrested and subsequently taken to Manhattan Criminal Court for arraignment, was forced to wait longer than usual to be arraigned ...
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Posted on Mar 21, 2012 By Michael Redenburg
March 21, 2012 After 73 Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested this past weekend, supporters and activists are calling for a May 1, 2012 "strike." The "strike" they're ...
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Posted on Mar 19, 2012 By Michael Redenburg
March 19, 2012 Today NY Governor Mario Cuomo signed a bill which will require anyone convicted of a felony or misdemeanor to provide a DNA sample, expanding the state's DNA Databank for the fourth ...
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Posted on Mar 18, 2012 By Michael Redenburg
March 18, 2012 A man was arrested Friday and arraigned yesterday in Queens Criminal Court on charges that he clubbed a stray cat to death last month. Authorities allege the man had been ejected from a ...
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Posted on Mar 12, 2012 By Michael Redenburg
March 12, 2012 Today in the trial of former Rutgers student Dharun Ravi, his criminal defense attorney rested and jurors may begin deliberations as early as tomorrow or Wednesday following closing ...
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Posted on Mar 7, 2012 By Michael Redenburg
March 7, 2012 Last year, an alleged member of the internet groups known as Anonymous / LulzSec / Internet Feds, was arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit access device fraud , bank fraud, one ...
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Posted on Mar 6, 2012 By Michael Redenburg
March 6, 2012 According to reports, about 68 individuals protesting education cuts near the state capitol in California late yesterday were arrested and charged with trespassing. A California Highway ...
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Posted on Mar 4, 2012 By Michael Redenburg
March 4, 2012 Law students and other demonstrators gathered outside of a downtown restaurant on Wall Street yesterday, where New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly spoke at a luncheon for ...
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Posted on Mar 3, 2012 By Michael Redenburg
March 3, 2012 California is currently the only state that requires that a DNA sample be taken when an individual is arrested and booked; allowing those arrested to later seek to have their DNA samples ...
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Posted on Mar 1, 2012 By Michael Redenburg
March 1, 2012 Today, under mostly dreary skies, Zucotti Park, where the Occupy Wall Street Protests began, is all but empty; only a handful of protesters and two NYPD officers watching over them. ...
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Posted on Feb 29, 2012 By Michael Redenburg
February 29, 2012 In a massive takedown which began this morning, federal and local law enforcement arrested over 30 people who they allege ran a health care fraud scheme, defrauding insurers of ...
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Posted on Feb 28, 2012 By Michael Redenburg
What began as a peaceful protest against social and economic inequality in New York City's Zuccotti Park last year, quickly spread nationally and internationally. And while the protesters are no ...
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Posted on Mar 27, 2011 By Michael Redenburg
PL155.35 reads: A person is guilty of grand larceny in the third degree when he steals property and when the value of the property exceeds three thousand dollars. Grand larceny in the third degree is ...
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Posted on Mar 9, 2011 By Michael Redenburg
Reckless Endangerment may be charged as either an A Misdemeanor or a D Felony, depending on the circumstances in New York. Penal Law 120.20, Reckless Endangerment in the 2nd Degree states that a ...
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Posted on Mar 2, 2011 By Michael Redenburg
Menacing charges can range from a Class E Felony, the most serious menacing charge, to a Class B Misdemeanor. Menacing in the first degree, Penal Law 120.13 states that a person is guilty of menacing ...
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